[boring_twenties]

Beyond unbelievable that going on an hour later, they're still showing "incorrect password" errors. How many hundreds of millions of people have wasted time frantically trying (in vain) to reset their passwords and pointlessly freaking out that their account might be compromised? What a bunch of careless, incompetent excuses for engineers.

[alwyn]

Blame the managers and product owners that don't think this is an issue, not the developers that likely raised it a million times already.

[nuz]

Imagine how many hundreds of millions of users waste their time using instagram and facebook on a daily basis. Safe to say they don't mind wasting their customers time

[cratermoon]

This is your regular reminder that the users are not their customers. Advertisers and media outlets are the paying customers.

[ConorSheehan1]

What a poor bunch of overworked human beings, with almost no control over the product they work on. Frantically following the whims of managers, reduced to labour units in this late stage capitalist hellscape.

[jeltz]

But well paid at least. Working at Meta seems pretty shitty except for the pay from the stories I have heard.

[loeg]

It probably depends what team you're on, but I would not describe it as "pretty shitty." Being oncall for a 24/7 service sucks, yeah, but for my team it is one week a quarter and I haven't had any outside-of-biz-hour alarms the last few shifts. Other than that -- my work is challenging and interesting, my colleagues are friendly and smart, and my manager is decent. Not a lot to complain about.

[colund]

That's such a beautiful comment I would almost consider printing it and putting it on my wall

[matsur]

Major outages are periods of intense stress and extremely difficult to operate in. The folks troubleshooting may be many things, but careless and incompetent are unlikely to be among them.

[Solvency]

I can almost guarantee you're getting mercilessly downvoted because half of the people here are sympathetic Meta worshippers who desperately (1) wish they worked there and (2) know they'd probably contribute similarly to this same horribly engineered system.